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People who harbor high levels of chronic inflammation at midlife are more likely to experience memory loss and problems with thinking in subsequent decades, according to a new study in the journal Neurology — the first long-term look at the link between inflammatory blood markers and brain health.
To reach their conclusion, which points to why things such as diet and exercise might be important to Alzheimer's prevention, researchers used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC...

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If you’re a woman between the ages of 45 to 55 and you’re feeling particularly moody, fatigued, sleepless, and hot and sweaty, these may be symptoms of perimenopause, the sometimes rocky road leading up to menopause. If these changes weren’t ...

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Ever walk into a room and forget why you’re there? Or have trouble keeping track of your keys? Don’t worry, you’re not losing it. Such memory fails are usually nothing more than the result of the multiple and endless distractions in our lives...

Next Avenue

Do you really need to take that vitamin? Probably not. More and more data shows that healthy people don’t gain anything from popping vitamins and minerals, and supplements may even pose risks. Here’s what you need to know about these popular products:
Vitamin D
Despite the fanfare surrounding the sunshine vitamin, there’s growing concern that people are being over-tested and over-treated for vitamin D deficiency.
The National Academy of Medicine has determined that individuals are deficient i...

beachbodyondemand.com

If you twist or sprain your ankle, you know what to do: rest, ice, compression, and elevation, aka the RICE method.
Not so fast. Although athletic trainers and orthopedists have been preaching RICE treatment for years, it turns out there may ...

AARP

Small flashlight to check for creepy-crawlies
Examine your hotel mattress along its seams and where the headboard meets the wall for dark splotches, a telltale sign of bedbugs, recommends Dong-Hwan Choe, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside. Bedbugs are activated by heat, so you can also use a hair dryer to blow low heat over surfaces and see what crawls out.
Seltzer water to protect your gut
Sometimes even bottled water can be suspect. “In some poor places, people reloa...

everydayHEALTH

Could a single session with a physical therapist improve women’s arm movement following breast cancer surgery? Apparently so.

The authors of a new study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Cancer Survivorship Symposium on Monday February 12 in San Francisco found that a tailored physical therapy exercise program sped the return of range of motion after axillary node dissection, in which lymph nodes, many near or under the arm, have been removed.

US News & World Report

Eric M. Weil, a primary care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was worried about a patient – a recovering alcoholic who had previously been hospitalized due to his drinking. Now a close family member had died. "If he's ever going to start drinking, it's going to be now," Weil remembers thinking.

But Weil didn't have to leave his patient's fate to chance. Staffers of his practice reached out with a customized support plan. They called the man frequently, making sure that he w...

rallyhealth.com

Quick. Are you sitting down? You might want to take a short sprint to the water cooler or just get up and stretch.
A growing body of research shows that logging long hours behind a desk raises the risk of chronic health ills like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, depression, and even cancer. “There’s a consistent association between sitting and health,” says Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD, associate executive director for population science at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, ...

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Got the sniffles? Feel a cold coming on? Take care of yourself. You may have some effective remedies right in your home. Evidence suggests that many of your grandma’s go-to fixes really do work, not only for colds and flus, but for a wide range of ailments. If you are very ill, don’t skip calling your doctor or taking first-line medications. But below are a few kitchen staples — and there are no doubt more — that can help with common health symptoms, whether or not you...

US News & World Report

Leaving aside the debate over who or what is to blame, 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001 – and 2016 was the hottest ever. While the consequences of melting ice caps or vanishing species may seem remote, the health effects of a warming planet are already being felt, experts warn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a Climate and Health Program in 2009 to address the issue, although its future is uncertain. A CDC conference on the subject that had...